Chapter 39 swiss papal guard

This used to be a particularly poor place in the world. Poverty breeds war.But a hermit in the desolate central mountainous area has long left his last words: You only need to protect your own freedom, and don't go far to interfere with others. The words are right, but they cannot be done.Too poor, nothing to protect oneself, even less possible to interfere with others.However, when others come to hire us when they interfere with each other, it is difficult to refuse. As a result, for a long time, the most heroic and loyal soldiers on the European battlefield were generally recognized as Swiss soldiers.Switzerland did not participate in the war, but it was a group of Swiss who shed blood on the front line; what is even more shocking is that their compatriots were often killed by their own compatriots, and these compatriots were employed by the masters of the other side.

The Swiss are not fighting for foreigners because of overpopulation.Their population has always been small, but they have devoted themselves to this kind of business with life as the only bet.It's a bet and I can't bear it, because there is always a possibility of winning the bet, but they will never win anything. Even if they win, the winners will be foreign masters and domestic bureaucrats who act as intermediaries. At most, they will stay temporarily lost a life. There is no patriotic deceit in this kind of war, and there is no pretense of moral indignation. It is all because of employment, but the name and proposition of the hirer are unknown, and he does not know why he started this war.For a word?For one breath?For a castle?For a woman?It's all possible.

This is a game played by strangers thousands of miles away, but two groups of Swiss are used as pawns. Speaking of which, this kind of war is really pure, but those pawns are living people with flesh and blood and families.The sword stabbed at the compatriots, and the screams and screams were wrapped in the same language, which was different from the language of the masters of both sides.Maybe, when I listened to the shout, I was a little familiar, and when I looked closely, it was a relative I hadn't seen for a long time, but the sword had been lowered, the shouting had stopped, and there was only time to avoid the last look. This kind of scene should often happen.

After hundreds of years of such cruel training, I believe that this ethnic group will inevitably become indifferent to reason and emotion.This can be seen a little bit in the field of thinking and creation in Switzerland. The positive result of this training is the development of a loyalty rare in the world.Loyalty doesn't talk about too many reasons. If there is a reason, it becomes a logical behavior, and it is no longer pure loyalty.Therefore, the heavily guarded Pope of Rome has never carefully selected his personal guards, and there is only one requirement: Swiss soldiers. To this day, the rules of the Holy See are often revised, and most of their behaviors are also close to modern times. Only the Pope's guards must still be Swiss soldiers.

However, apart from the Pope, Switzerland has long stopped sending mercenaries to other places.This is awakening in a pool of blood, self-examination amidst shame, they are honest people after all, once they understand it, they will cut it off completely, not only will they stop fighting for others, they will not fight for themselves, and they will simply and completely reject war. They are too familiar with war and too unfamiliar with it.What is familiar is the blade-to-blank fight; what is not familiar is the initiation of the war and its reasons, the advancement of the war and its strategies, the end of the war and its aftermath.Strictly speaking, they do not yet know how to fight for themselves.

So they chose neutrality. In fact, they have always been neutral, because any party can hire them, and they have no prior position; if they have a position, they have to change it again and again due to different employers, which is so troublesome, so they can only regard giving up their position as a professional instinct . From the neutrality of accepting war to the neutrality of rejecting war, Switzerland's national collective psychology is really a special chapter of war psychology, but it is a pity that there is still a lack of research.The two world wars of the twentieth century had provided miraculous opportunities for its neutrality, and it, too, had become a miracle of the world.

There are no strongmen in Switzerland, and no precious mineral deposits have been found in Switzerland. It has jumped from a poor country that can only export mercenaries to the pinnacle of world wealth in more than a hundred years. safe haven for funds.Neutrality is the darling of war and the need of both sides. Perhaps, this is God of War's compensation for them?The God of War has seen too many corpses of Swiss soldiers, and his heart softens. Switzerland was really enviable in those days.I once used these few words to describe: People are making guns, they are making watches, and when the smoke of gunpowder finally dissipates, people take a closer look, only the pointer set by Switzerland is walking on the wrist of the world.